republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-277.md

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Bill	Insurance; allow good will from insurer acquisitions to be treated as an asset	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to allow good will from insurer acquisitions to be treated as an asset; to allow mutual insurers to charge policyholder dividends directly to surplus; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 277	Georgia HB 277 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bruce Williamson John Carson Richard Smith Shaw Blackmon	5	16	1	2019-02-12	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d1492cc9-7270-40b8-ab69-2f5c42a7f094	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	86cc03a8f7928126defd35303b0b808b1fef117dab6a3c645a6f5496f63f6101	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 277 (2019_20) — Insurance; allow good will from insurer acquisitions to be treated as an asset

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to allow good will from insurer acquisitions to be treated as an asset; to allow mutual insurers to charge policyholder dividends directly to surplus; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. HB 277/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 46 0069ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 46 0105ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 46 0105ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 46 0144ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 162–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-12 House Hopper
• 2019-02-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-02-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-11 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 274 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1492cc9-7270-40b8-ab69-2f5c42a7f094. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).